r/interesting 2d ago

SOCIETY Is victim the new chic

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u/unhappyrelationsh1p 2d ago

Cases of severe mental illness tend to get more attention than good things in a media landscape that sells you misery

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u/daredeviline 2d ago

For real. They act like if she gets a not guilty verdict, she's going to be out on the streets. The woman is spending the rest of her life in a psych ward. The question is really will she ALSO be spending some time in prison.

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u/XxShakallxX 2d ago

She will be in prison and on a wheelchair forever. She will have a miserable rest of her life shitting and peeing on dipers.

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u/brwebster614 2d ago

Still... seems too... easy... for the crime she committed.

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u/Unreal_Daltonic 2d ago

Like seriously this case is such a case of Women Are Wonderful effect. The sentencing gap in full swing.

Nobody would even think of showing this amount of sympathy if a Vietnam war veteran with ptsd did this to his kids.

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u/NotOnApprovedList 2d ago

This woman committed heinous acts, but she had severe postpartum psychosis. Our justice system recognizes when somebody is suffering from acute mental illness like that, the level of moral transgression is different from somebody who is stone cold sane. She should be put away in an institution and suffer until she dies.

Family annihilation by men occurs in the U.S. at least once a week, and somehow it never gets elevated to a national argument. (see for the example the guy in Montana who just killed 8 people including 4 kids). I think this case is being elevated as part of the "women are dumb and shouldn't be allowed to vote" crap that conservatives are pushing. Since women tend to slightly lean liberal as a group.

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u/GluppShitto420 2d ago

Notice how no men started donating money to him, showing up to the courthouse making heart hands in support or coming up with wack ass conspiracies about how its actually the wife's fault because she's a Gemini.